Public Enemies(ISBN=9780143115861)

　　Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios
　　"ludicrously entertaining" (Time), Public Enemies is the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, and an assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men secured the FBI's rise to power.

　　Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and the author of three previous books.

　　" [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version."
  　-The Wall Street Journal
  　"A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field."
  　-Newsweek
  　"An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly, and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses."
  　-Entertainment Weekly